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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 6 sec.) ; 316409527 bytes |
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A unique look at the ghettos of one of the world's megacities.Welcome to Lagos is a three-part observational documentary series which explores life at the sharp end of one of the most extreme urban environments in the world: Lagos, Nigeria. Today, more than half the world's population live in cities, and this eye-opening series shows what life is really like in some of the toughest parts of the world's fastest growing megacity.Lagos's version of Venice is a slum, built on water, called Makoko. Episode two continues to explore one of the most extreme urban environments on the planet, by taking a trip into the lives of those who choose to live and work on the waters of Lagos Lagoon.Chubbey is a fisherman who lives in a house built on stilts. With 18 children and five grandchildren to support, he has become an expert at making money from the most unlikely of places. But when his teenage son starts to hang out with a local gang, he is left with a dilemma familiar to parents all over the world.Paul is a saw operator at Ebute Metta, the largest timber yard in West Africa. All the wood that goes into building Lagos passes through this place, floated in on enormous rafts, some over a kilometre long. Kissme and Daniel are two 'sandboys', who make their living diving for sand from the bottom of the Lagoon and selling it to the building trade. Between them they can fill two dumper trucks a day, collecting every grain of it by hand, with an old iron bucket.As humans begin to come to terms with an increasingly urban future, Welcome to Lagos offers unprecedented access and insight into the lives of just some of the millions of slum dwellers who are living at the sharp end of the fastest growing megacity in the world. . (From the UK) (Documentary) (Part 2 of 3) CC WS |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-10-05 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Colored people (South Africa) -- Social life and customs.
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Fishers -- Social conditions.
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Inner cities.
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Sand -- Transportation.
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Slums -- Social conditions.
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Nigeria -- Lagos.
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Streaming video
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Harewood, David, cast
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Searle, Gavin, director
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